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The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
Andrew Greeley
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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
Journalist
Novelist
Priest
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University Teacher
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Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
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I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
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Search for the perfect church if you will when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.
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We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
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The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
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Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
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The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
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